Improvement in barrel-washers



PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV SCHOCK, OF NEW YORK, Nv. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,422, dated February 15,1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all lwhom it 'iimg/,coacerm Be it-known that I, GUsTAv ScHoeK, of the city ofy New York,.county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Barrel-Washer, ofV which the following isa speciiication:

Figure l is a vertical central section of my improved barrel-washer, showing its valve closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing its valve opened; Fig. 3 is a top vewot the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

This invention relates to a new barrelwasher, in 'which the washing-pipe and the barrel-supportsare rigidly united and made vertically movable7 sothat when the barrel is puton the supports it will cause them to de-V scend and the pipe to be opened, all as hereinafter more fully described.

1n the drawing, the letter A represents a horizontal supply-pipe for the water or other liquid which is used vfor washing the barrels or other vessels. This. pipe is supported on a suitable frame-work, and has a vertical branch, a, at every place at which a barrelwasher is to be applied'. Into every vertical -brauch wot' the pipe A is fitted a verticallymovable pipe, B,4 which, at its lower part, carries' an enlargement 'or valve, b, which is, by the pressure of the water, held against an annular valve-seat, c. The seat c is formed in the branch a, or in a tube,.d, that is, or may be screwed into the same, as shown. A spring, e, may be applied against the closedv lower end of the pipe B, to insure the closing of the valve b. The pipe B extends loosely through the branch a and tube d, and pro- '.jects above the same, and terminates at its` I upper end in rose or sprinl'il'ery l. Below this rose or sprinkler are attached to, and rigidly connected withythe pipe B two or more projecting arms, D D, which constitute the barrel-support. The pipe B is `closed at its lower part, so that when the valve b is closed, as in' Fig. l, no liquid can enter said pipe from the an aperture or apertures, so that when a barrel is placed upon the brackets D D, and the opened, as in Fig. 2, the liquid from the pipe A will enter the pipe B, and 4 thereby also the barrel, for the barrel is so placed upon the brackets D that the pipe B will enter its bunghole, and wash it with the liquid that flows through such pipe. The pipe B has above the branch a and tube d an outer ijange or shoulder, f, which, at its under side, carries a cushion, g, of lead, rubber, or other proper material, and which, by the weighttof the barrel, is forced upon the upper end ot' the tube d, as in Fig. 2, to close the annular space between the pipe B and branch a and tube d, and prevent water from escaping around the 4pipe B. Directly below the pipe B l propose and prefer to form a chamber, g", and to provide the same with a short pipe, h, and cock t, to allow asmall escape of water in winter, and prevent freezing. The chamber gX also perlower end of the slidin g pipe B, as shown. I claim asmy inventioning Aperforated pipe B, which carries the barrel-supports D D, substantially as described.

thc sliding perforated pipe B with the Valve l), and with the valveseat c above said valve, substantially as specitied. 4

3. The combination of the sliding perforated pipe B with the shoulder f, and with embracing-tube l or a, to constitute a valve of a barrel-washer, the chamber g* and pipe h, substantially as and for the purpose specilied.

, GUSTAV SOHOGK. Witnesses:

ERNEs'r G. WEBB,

F. V. BEIEsEN.

pipe B thereby slid down, and the valvev mits the applic-ation ot'v aguide-rod, j, to the p 1. The barrel-washer composed of the slidv 2. The combination, in a barrel-washer, ot'

when the pipe B is slid down, substantially' 4. -In combination with thesldingv pipe B 

